| Show MARCH ON fRANKFURT fRANKFORT j Thousand Armed Men Mn Visit the thet t Capital IN INTEREST OF TAYLOR lAYLOR I 4 TOOK UP POSITION ABOUT THE STATS HOUSa HOUs I V Petition Drawn Up Per For V on onto to the thO legislature Ga of Bur Bureaus fians Jk B By the th cans Who Amused Th By g Their Guns Gunst t Frankfort Ky Jan an 25 S A special train bearing more titan than t 11 men meet carrying Winchester rifles arrived in Frankfort at oclo k this morning The V men hail from front the counties of vf Ben Belt Allen Knox Harlan Metcalf and ad Edmondson Ed n Frankfort is overflowing with visitors II but none except ext ex cx t those arriving arrIVi today carry arms Governor Taylor Tayler stated to an Asso Associated elated dated Press representative that the themen themen men were not soldiers He disclaimed any knowledge e of the identity or pur purpose pose lime of the armed visitors The men mei marched to the state house stacked their gorse gur and nd took up poet positions in groups groug about the buildings They were all provided with badges bearing a portrait of Governor Taylor which they th iy pinned on un their breasts Adjutant General Collier states that he had no knowledge that the men were Many of the visitors vl are members of the state tate guard The total number arrived on the special train cannot be Stated ex exactly exactly exactly The train had bed seventeen sev n cars of State Finley Fildey ad deemed the visitors from the steps of the state stat house hou e He Re said the object of the gathering was to to see seer justice ju done doneA doneA doneA A committee was appointed to draft resolutions resol Uon Stephen Sharp of Lexing ton was waa chosen coogen chairman The reso resolutions committee drafted the following to be presented to the legislature Petition to legislature We Kentuckians here assembled in token of all an the free tree and equal men of ol Kentucky do reassert rt the theand great and essential e principles of oC liberty and free tree government proclaimed in the bill bin of rights not as II derived to us there from but as u inherent Our property we may alienate from ourselves our and our children but our liberty is a heritage e to us in trust for all generations and we may neither surrender nor encumber it We de declare declare clare dare again n the prerogative right of freely freety communicating our thoughts and lid opinions and to assemble together in a peaceful manner for tor our common good plOd and the good o of 0 our fellow men menor of or V VV V Kentucky More especially do e declare our r right and authority conferred on us by I Almighty AJ power JOWer and am not net otherwise of appealing to tet those these invested rv with the th power of government Ut by b ettner her petition I or remonstrance and we represent to them our of Kentucky our ourS agents in the legislature convened that the government of Kentucky is found founded founded ed eel on our authority and instituted for I our peace safety and happiness and the protection of property our own I and theirs as well as that of the stranger within our gates P Peril S1 Over All We uWe petition them our proxies pro in the he general germI bly to heed head b Jd that there is peril over all those things so m dear r to KS us s lid and them and that calm ROaD Item and prudence and d wisdom need neni I Ibe be invoked In order that truth and ind nd justice juU may prevail and we exercise right of remonstrance against their suffering themselves to be V VInto led into the temptations of partisan pride in the crisis which is on us We be h them to remember that their I own just juet powers were loaned them thesa By Byus us at the polls and that Uw among these was the jurisdiction to decide judici judicially judicially Judicially ally and lid by due process of law and not otherwise what wee was W II then our ex en zd will not net n t their present political preference We Implore them that they do not not noton on slight Might or technical pretexts pretext nor or trivial causes permit the sub version endon of that supreme law of f the land the win wl of the eOle eo le We beg bee of them tb m that they thea receive I from the hands of our m messengers and i and do not spurn ot of despise desp 1 this our earnest address petition and ad I remor and aDd that they by b their ther considerate action protect promote the I safety and welfare and above a ve all the I honor of ef Kentucky committed to their keenn keen I Signed V V CHARLES HARLES FINLaY DB DB DR THOMAS IH S W BERRY A A W II V CLAUDE CHINN Closed the os Th The me lower otter house f the tk legislature met at 11 U and aDd on of Mr Cantrell Democratic leader r a resolution tion was adopted excluding all but la Ja ladie JaIs die Is dies from froin the chamber chambe and galleries Mr Ir Catron Rep the consent of f the house of Vf representatives to per permit permit permit mit a nonmember to present a resolution I tion but bat Speaker Trimble ruled that nobody but 1 ut a ti member could do so Si soA SiA s sA I A rumor is in circulation but per persistently I denied that Judge ce J j the this local circuit court bas Jus aa ODed all Democratic deputy sheriffs of the state to Frankfort The Tae commonwealths com at attorney torney troey Franklin says he lie knows boYs of no ouda order I The Toe armed men of the mountains I contrary to expectations on the advice V of the th Republican authorities here left Frankfort at 9 S tonight tOD t The i of opinion here hers is la that the i visitors mistook this for the day on which the contest boards o were to make their report I Shot Up The men were fro an hour hoar getting aboard ard V their train and amused themselves t I 4 during the daisy in ih di c discharging their guns goH The people of the city aty gave ve them thema I Ia a wide wid ide berth betth They are expected to re return return turn tum when the contest I The snivel arrival in Frankfort of this thi crowd of ms to 1 1 MO men meD armed with j i rifles might have terrorised a com coin less lens Ie inured to unusual 1 and son sen sensational I I happenings happel but by nightfall sonI I the excitement cause by the Hie appear appearance appearance I 1 ance anon of the warlike visitors had sub subsided sided and the people were prepared for another turn in the vents events now DOW making history at the state capital The train that bore boIe the armed men inset was wan made up of seventeen reaches coaches Ap 1 pai but few here knew th ut thet t it u was expected Lunch was wu served to the host bot at the NV f the state otate statehouse house bOUM Moat Most of the visitors N wore I badges bad of white ribbon adorned with witha J I a picture of Governor Taylor While bile it itis Itis I is generally generall believed that hat many of the themen themen men were soldiers no person in iS author authorIty authorIty ity will stand Or for lor the f ft statement u i eat while Governor Taylor and nd Adjutant General Collier disclaim any ny 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